Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #115747

Dena Hassouneh-Phillips, PhD, ANP, RN¹, Rebecca Hernandez, PhD¹, Marie Dahlstrom, MA², and Helen Moss, MA³. (1) School of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University, 3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd., Mail Code: SN-5S, Portland, OR 97239, 503-494-2714, phillide@ohsu.edu, (2) OHSU Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 3251 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Mail Code: CR145, Portland, OR 97239, (3) Labor Education Research Center, University of Oregon, 1289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR OR

Workplace involvement in preventing and addressing the negative effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) may benefit organizations through improving employee performance, productivity, health, employee trust and retention, and worksite safety. Moreover, the workplace provides a key opportunity to address violence prevention efforts for high-risk Latina women who are unlikely to seek help in traditional settings due to cultural barriers. The study aim to develop an innovative community-partnered (IPV) intervention model will target employed immigrant and US-born Latina and non-Latina women survivors of IPV. This workplace intervention will increase battered women's access to culturally competent IPV information, support, and community resources. Toward this purpose, four focus groups were conducted in English and Spanish with urban and rural, union and nonunion employees in service organizations to examine perceptions of coworker and supervisor response in the workplace to employee disclosures of IPV. Preliminary data will be discussed including a qualitative analysis of emerging themes such as ethnicity, union participation, organizational climate and confidentiality of disclosure. In addition, participant suggestions for approaches to inform a successful workplace intervention will be reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Identify several ways community partnerships can contribute to the overall success of applied research and to the development of the engaged communities.
• 2. Articulate and discuss the relationship between workplace culture towards IPV and battered women’s health and safety.
• 3. List 5 subscales of the IPV-OCS and articulate the relevance of each in relation to the workplace.

Keywords: Vulnerable Populations,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.